Location Capernaum Denomination Roman Catholic Church | Country Israel Address Israel | |
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Similar St Joseph's Church, Church of the Primacy o, Church of Saint Peter in Gallica, Dominus Flevit Church, Chapel of the Milk Grotto | ||
The St. Peter's Church (Hebrew: כנסיית בית פטרוס) also called the Pilgrimage Church of St. Peter in Capernaum is a modern Catholic pilgrimage church found in the archaeological site of Capernaum, northern Israel. The church is part of the Franciscan monastery in Capernaum. It is dedicated to St. Peters, which Catholics consider the first leader of the Church.
Archaeological excavations carried out in this place, discovered another layer of residential structures, on which the first half of a first century church was built. It is considered "the first church in the world" and believes it could be the place where the house of the Apostle Peter was. In the V century, in place an octagonal church was built. In 1990, with the remains of these ancient temples it was built a church of modern pilgrimage.
The Pilgrimage Church of St. Peter is located in the central part of the archaeological site of Capernaum, at an altitude of 195 meters p.p.m. on the west coast north of the Sea of Galilee, in the depression of the Jordan Valley, in northern Israel.